Immigrant Youth Shelters: 'If You're A Predator, It's A Gold Mine'
Source: Talking Points Memo
ProPublica obtained police reports and call logs from more than two-thirds of the shelters housing immigrant children. Heres what they show.
By Michael Grabell ProPublica and Topher Sanders
ProPublica | July 27, 2018 12:57 pm
Just five days after he reached the United States, the 15-year-old Honduran boy awoke in his Tucson, Arizona, immigrant shelter one morning in 2015 to find a youth care worker in his room, tickling his chest and stomach.
When he asked the man, who was 46, what he was doing, the man left. But he returned two more times, rubbing the teens penis through his clothing and then trying to reach under his boxers. I know what you want, I can give you anything you need, said the worker, who was later convicted of molestation.
In 2017, a 17-year-old from Honduras was recovering from surgery at the shelter when he woke up to find a male staff member standing by his bed. You have it very big, the man said, referring to the teens penis. Days later, that same employee brushed the teen with his hand while he was playing video games. When the staff member approached him again, the boy locked himself in a bathroom. And in January of this year, a security guard at the shelter found notes in a minors jacket that suggested an inappropriate relationship with a staff member.
Pulled from police reports, incidents like these at Southwest Keys Tucson shelter provide a snapshot of what has largely been kept from the public as well as members of Congress a view, uncolored by politics, of troubling incidents inside the facilities housing immigrant children.
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keithbvadu2
(36,778 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,146 posts)Doesnt he have a history of that?
oberliner
(58,724 posts)These horrific crimes are part of a much larger systemic problem that goes back years.
keithbvadu2
(36,778 posts)elmac
(4,642 posts)The US Federal Government kidnapped and brainwashed young children, something a child molester would do. This country, US, will pay dearly for this dirty deed.
Solly Mack
(90,762 posts)Disgusting
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)ROB-ROX
(767 posts)This just goes to show what the EVIL tRUMP has done AGAIN. Those who vote for him do NOT see or know the EVIL tRUMP does to others. The CESSPOOL which voted for tRUMP may wake up when it is to late. I know they will cry when their fearless leader is in JAIL.......